FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es

C23, C2Y, and.... defer ?!

https://www.tiktok.com/@__phantomderp/video/7328442337095339307

The AI Paradox:

You're forced to add "AI "to your product in order to appear to stay relevant…

…but that makes your product worse, thereby hastening its decent into irrelevancy and possibly an ultimate demise.

The only companies who will be left standing at the end of the day are the ones who hold the line and care about genuine customer experience above all else. That's always been true, but it's more true now than ever.

@hazelweakly I wish I could figure out a good way to monetize managing and mitigating tech debt. At my last job I built something that *freaking worked* and I hear they are still using it with great effect.

New definition of tech debt: work that is considered so unvalued by the company that you can get fired for doing it

As I watch X openly support Nazis, Google search displaying explicitly incorrect information and misinformation, and the continued march towards a lack of foresight or accountability in tech I must reiterate that technology is and forever will be a political force.

A couple of weeks ago I discovered the Studio 2.0 program to make Lego figures and I was having fun creating this. It's a little Anubis chest, and it's functional! It can be opened!
#LEGO #Anubis #Kemetic

As we were talking about NeXT cubes, do you know that they fit nicely in an Ikea(r) Kallax, the unit of vintage computer storage?

There comes a point where "counterfeit product" transforms into "the last surviving record"
copy that floppy
write that poem

So it turns out Unicode has separate characters for 🛈 and ⓘ

NASA stated that the Ingenuity helicopter has officially taken its last flight. 72 out of 5 planned flights is pretty darn good.

H/t to @CubeApril

Had my young son watch The Matrix with me and he said "what if that 'real world' that keanu's group is fighting in is actually just another level of the matrix they built to keep rebels busy and preoccupied" and these children are maybe not ok after all but my god are they sharp

Man goes to Windows. Says thing is not working. Says he's getting a strange error. Says he feels lost and unsure what to do. Windows says, "Solution is simple. Administrator is in the office today. Go and see him. He should know the answer." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But Windows... I am Administrator!"

Repeating the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result can also be training, practice… that’s how we learn

When a tv show says it contains "adult themes" I'm expecting it to be about stuff like hurting your back, having indigestion, going for a nice nap

I wonder what the upper limit on battery density is, not from an electrochemical/physics perspective, but on a simple practical level based on collateral damage?

Like, we're already at the point where your cellphone battery isn't more than a few orders of magnitude away from the energy density of a hand grenade, making a tesla catching on fire a minor crisis for a fire department.

At what point do batteries stop getting more dense, to limit the damage when they fail?

Confirming what we already know, higher hood heights kill more pedestrians / cyclists:
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212012224000017

I have always wanted passenger vehicles to standardize on bumper, headlight, and hood heights along with a max curb weight.

Anything that goes bigger would require a different class of drivers license, with additional driver testing and more insurance.

a significant part of my job is telling the customer that their code contains undefined behavior that could explode in their faces on next compiler upgrade, to which the response, invariably, is that they are still using the exact same build of gcc as the day the company was founded in 2007, and they will bury that exact binary of gcc with them in their grave.